[Qt-interest] Storing Qt properties to file

[Dan White]

Have you looked at Qsettings ?

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qsettings.html#accessing-ini-and-plist-files-directly


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----- Schimkowitsch Robert <Robert.Schimkowitsch at andritz.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to be able to write the properties of my object to file in a
> locale-independent way, and be able to restore the object using that
> stored information later on.
> 
> Before I start reinventing the wheel, I'd like to know whether something
> like this already exists (I couldn't find it, but then again Qt has
> grown big).
> 
> My plan includes the following steps. If you happen to know existing
> classes or samples that cover those steps, please let me know!
> 
> 1) Read and write QVariant: Handling of basic data types (float is a bit
> tricky, unicode strings might be)
> 2) Write a reader and writer that writes all Q_PROPERTIES of an object
> to an XML file, and reads them again, restoring the object properties.
> By using propertyOffset() of QMetaObject, I should be able to filter out
> base class properties that should not be saved and restored.
> 3) Define the needed properties in my objects, and call the
> reader/writer
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Robert Schimkowitsch
> 
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